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EREF's 14th Annual Refuse Equipment Auction
is coming to WasteExpo 2008, Chicago

Be a part of one of the waste industry's largest fundraisers
and one of WasteExpo's premiere events!
Last year $1.2 million was raised in Atlanta.  
Click here for details, including a list of new items donated to-date.

AUCTION BOOKLET COMPLETE - CLICK HERE TO VIEW SPECS OF DONATED ITEMS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR BID

Charitable raffle sponsored by
 
Pre-Auction Reception sponsored by


For 2008, the Environmental Research and Eduction Foundation (EREF) has identified three solid waste management issues for potential funding related to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change.  Submitters may propose on any or all issues.  EREF would like to receive pre-proposals on:

  • Determining the municial solid waste industry's carbon footprint;
  • Quntifying the amount of carbon sequested in municipal solid waste (MSW)  landfills; and
  • Quatifying the collection efficiency of gas collection sytems and amount of fugative emissions from MSW landfills.
Proposals are due at the close-of-business on May 30, 2008.

Click HERE for RFP details
 

PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE
Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Leachate Characterization Study

The report increases the understanding of how operational practices, waste types, waste age, and other physical factors affect leachate quality with respect to typically regulated inorganic and volatile organic compounds, and biochemical constituents at municipal solid waste landfills.

To order the complete report on CD-ROM, download publication order form, or contact Sarah Stancliff at 703-299-5139 x10.


PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE
A Performance-Based Approach to 
Ending Post-Closure Care at 
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills:  
A Procedure for Providing Long-Term Stewardship 
Under RCRA Subtitle D


EREF developed an innovative approach toward evaluating long-term care needs at municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills.  The approach emphasizes the operation of MSW landfills in a manner that reduces the long-term threat to human health and the environment. Click here for Research Bulletin.

To order the complete report on CD-ROM, download publication order form, or contact Sarah Stancliff at 703-299-5139 x10.


Case Statement
from the President

Waste management practices are both time-honored and highly evolutionary.  The organized collection of waste dates back thousands of years, recycling at least hundreds. Yet, awareness of the relationship between wastes and the broader issues of human health and environmental protection is recent -- and powerful. In the past two decades, health and environmental concerns dramatically changed waste management practices.

While today's practices are widely recognized as providing adequate protection of health and the environment, it is also true that serious gaps remain in our understanding of the long-term sustainability of various waste management practices. Economic realities and environmental ideals sometimes clash in waste management. Public attitudes toward wastes and the waste management industry are often problematic, and political pressures for change are never far from the surface.

The foundation exists to address issues such as these and with grants awarded totaling more than $4.4 million, we are well on our way to becoming an important community resource working to develop environmental solutions for the future.

If you believe in our industry as strongly as we do and accept the premise that research leads to greater knowledge, then we hope you will join with us as a donor or through a strategic alliance.

Sincerely,
Michael J. Cagney
 

 
Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF)
901 N. Pitt Street, Suite 270, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
703-299-5139   Fax: 703-299-5145
 

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Seminars and Solid Waste Employee Training Programs including our  Ergonomics Training Course in Spanish - Reduccion de los reisgos ergonomicos

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AUCTION

14th Annual Waste Equipment Absolute Auction and Charity Raffle at WasteExpo
coming to
Chicago, May 2008


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Silent Auction at WasteExpo

coming to
Chicago, May 2008


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